Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
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I bet I would have looked like "soccer mom on crack" to this author because I inquired about testing for DD, whether they would accept outside testing, whether they would take a GAI, etc. I was not satisfied with her mediocre CogAT score and thought it must be a gross underestimation of her abilities. What they don't understand is that the "regular" classroom programming is such a bad fit for gifted children, with almost no differentiation or acceleration of materials, that it really would be terrible if DD had not qualified. Even if kid is maybe 90th percentile, it's still not necessarily an appropriate place for them. Our district doesn't do anything significant unless a kid is in around the top two percent (of kids in the district). So what happens to the 8 or 15 percent who do not qualify but need something other than what the regular classroom provides? The schools do not see things that way, so any parent who "pushes" is potentially viewed as a pushy tiger parent demanding too much of their child.